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AShop Deluxe New Features - Version 4.1.2 (released
Sept 11, 2005)
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Detailed Version Release Notes
TeleSign Fraud Prevention
TeleSign is a pre-payment processing telephone verification service,
which can substantially reduce fraudulent credit card transactions.
TeleSign verification is supported with payment options that use
the local payment information form (orderform.php). Payment gateways
supported include: 3rd Level Billing, Authorize.Net AIM, Echo, eSelect,
IonGate, PayNova, PayReady, PSbill, and Verisign PayFlo Pro. More
about TeleSign...
There is a new option in the administration panel where TeleSign
verification may be activated by entering your TeleSign account
number. If the field is blank, the verification process is deactivated
and the payment form posts directly to the payment gateway when
submitted.
Font Control
Font sizes for the catalog and checkout pages are now set at the
bottom of the Layout menu. After the update is installed, font sizes
may be slightly smaller than before. Reset the sizes as needed in
the Layout menu.
Affiliate Link Cloaking
There is now link cloaking code inserted in the affiliate link generator.
This is done automatically for the image links. For text links,
there is a new token "%affiliatecloaklink%" that will
generate the code in the affiliate text instead of generating it
automatically, which would prevent the use of custom html code.
Insert the token before the link text and add a closing
tag </a> after the link text.
Example:
This is the text and %affiliatecloaklink%This Is The Link Text</a>
The resulting affiliate link code, which is generated
in each affiliate's login will contain cloaking code so that when
customers pass the cursor over affiliate links the affiliate.php
file and affiliate ID number do not appear in the status bar.
Instead of "http://www.yourdomain.com/affiliate.php?id=34"
in the status bar,
Customers see "http://www.yourdomain.com" when the mouse
is passed over the link.
Chargeback/Return Saves Credit Transaction Opposite
To Original
The Chargeback/Return option is available through Sales Reports
in Edit mode. Previously, a chargeback reversed the order and removed
it from inclusion in affiliate commissions by moving the order record
from the orders table to the chargeback table. This is changed now
so that a chargeback results in an equal and opposite order record,
which retains the audit trail for all transactions and provides
a better audit trail for accounting.
Sales Reports include the original order and the chargeback.
Chargebacks are in red and there is an icon/link to display comments
for each chargeback.
Filters To Find and/or List Customers and Affiliates
For Selective Messaging
There is now a filter by name and/or email address to list selected
customers and affiliates. Partial spellings and incomplete email
addresses can be used to find matches. The filter can be used to
list onlyl customers with gmail.com addresses or to find a customer
by entering a partial spelling of his/her name.
The number of customers or affiliates listed per page
selector is now selectable to shorten page loading time when the
list is long. Message recipients may be checked individually and
Mail To Selected or acheck box at the top of the list can be used
to select or deselect all customers/affiliates and Mail To All will
send to all of the recipients that are shown on the page. If there
are more customers/affiliates than the selected page limit, a page
selector appears at the bottom.
Filter and Validation For Customer Input Attributes
There is a new directory called filters in the admin directory which
right now only contains one single file: subdomain.inc.php. This
file can be used as a template and contains instructions on how
to create your own filters. It will remove things like "www"
and "http://" from subdomains and make sure that they
are lower case. It will also check for duplicates and display a
"Try again" message in the buy.php popup window if a duplicate
is found. The filter files are used only in the buy.php window and
must be named like this: [attribute caption (lower case)].inc.php,
for instance: domain.inc.php or email.inc.php. Filters can be used
for things like domain name, username, email, etc.
eMail Messaging Tokens To Include Customer/Affiliate
Data In Each Message
The mailcustomer.php and mailaffiliate.php scripts now accept variables,
which can be used to insert each affiliate or customer's information
into each message. When a token is used in a message, each recipient
receives a message with his/her specific information in place of
the token.
Affiliate Tokens
%firstname%, %lastname%, %email%, %affiliateid%, %address%, %state%,
%zip%, %city%, %country%, %url%, %phone%, %referralcode%, %password%,
%username%
Customer Tokens
%firstname%, %lastname%, %email%, %customerid%, %address%, %state%,
%zip%, %city%, %country%, %phone%
New Payment Gateway Modules
Version
4.0 New Feature Overview (Released April 2005)
Current Version New Feature Overview
Index of New Feature Overviews For Other Versions
For a complete
list of new features and bug fixes, see:
AShop Deluxe Version Release
Notes (text notes going back a few versions)
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